Meet Our Center Members

Faculty

Rossella Santagata

Professor, Center Director

r.santagata@uci.edu

Adriana Villavicencio

Adriana Villavicencio

Assistant Professor

Judith Haymore Sandholtz

Judith Haymore Sandholtz

Professor Emeritus, Center Founding Director

Elizabeth van Es

Professor, Founding Faculty

evanes@uci.edu

Lindsey Richland

Lindsey Richland

Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Program

Hosun Kang

Associate Professor

hosunk@uci.edu

Symone Gyles

Symone Gyles

Assistant Professor

Center Staff

Christina Kimmerling

Christina Kimmerling

Center Manager, Doctoral Student

 Isabelle Acosta

Isabelle Acosta

Project Coordinator

Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong

Doctoral Candidate

UCI Collaborators

Jody Guarino

Jody Guarino

Lecturer

Nicole Gilberston

Nicole Gilberston

UCI Teacher Academy, Director

Evelyn Young

Evelyn Young

MAT Lecturer & Supervisor

Myuriel von Aspen

Myuriel von Aspen

Program Coordinator, MAT Program

Doron Zinger

Doron Zinger

Director of CalTeach Program, UCI

Kelley Le

Kelley Le

Director, UCI Science Project

Susan Toma-Berge

Susan Toma-Berge

Interim Director of Teacher Education

Graduate Students

Dana Marie Conlin

Dana Marie Conlin

Doctoral Candidate

Lora Cawelti

Lora Cawelti

Doctoral Candidate

R. Mishael Sedas

R. Mishael Sedas

Doctoral Candidate

Victoria Nguyen

Victoria Nguyen

Doctoral Student

Stephen Skoropad

Stephen Skoropad

Doctoral Student

Leiny Garcia

Leiny Garcia

Doctoral Candidate

Socorro Cambero

Socorro Cambero

Doctoral Candidate

Patricia Fuentes Acevedo

Patricia Fuentes Acevedo

Doctoral Student

Ethan Benjamin Rubin

Ethan Benjamin Rubin

Doctoral Candidate

Allison Starks

Allison Starks

Doctoral Candidate

Jose Mendez

Jose Mendez

Doctoral Student

Carla Stanford

Carla Stanford

Doctoral Student

External Collaborators

Cathy Ringstaff

Cathy Ringstaff

Senior Research Associate, West Ed

Tara Barnhart

Tara Barnhart

Chapman University, Assistant Professor

Victoria Hand

Victoria Hand

Associate Professor, University of Colorado

Mariam Gamoran Sherin

Mariam Gamoran Sherin

Northwestern University

Alumni

Jinqing Liu

Jinqing Liu

Postdoctoral Scholar

jinqliu@iu.edu

Heather Clark

Heather Clark

Assistant Professor, CSUDH

Christopher Stillwell

Christopher Stillwell

Professor, English for Speakers of Other Languages, College of the Sequoias

Cathery Yeh

Cathery Yeh

Assistant Professor, UT Austin

David Liu

David Liu

Researcher, AT&T

Tara Barnhart

Tara Barnhart

Assistant Professor, Chapman University

Karen Taylor

Karen Taylor

Researcher, American Institutes for Research

Raul Orduna Picon

Raul Orduna Picon

Teaching Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Carlos Sandoval

Carlos Sandoval

Improvement Specialist WestEd

Erica Van Steenis

Erica Van Steenis

Improvement Scientist, Search Institute

Alison Munzer

Alison Munzer

Associate Director, 21CSLA

Rachel Stumpf

Rachel Stumpf

Academic Coach, Stanford

Jessica Tunney

Jessica Tunney

Principal and Executive Director, TLC Public Charter School

Jenell Krishnan

Jenell Krishnan

Senior Program Associate, WestEd

Sarah Gilliland

Sarah Gilliland

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, West Coast University

Jennifer Long

Jennifer Long

Education and Outreach Coordinator, Center for Environmental Biology, UCI

Hamideh Talafian

Hamideh Talafian

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Christopher Wegemer

Christopher Wegemer

Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA

cwegemer@uci.edu

Khamia Powell

Khamia Powell

Research Associate, WestEd

Virginia Panish

Virginia Panish

UCI Retiree

Jennifer Sun

Jennifer Sun

Program Manager, Faculty Development, SCU

Priyanka Argawal

Priyanka Argawal

Assistant Professor Mathematics Education University of Wisconsin, Madison

Huy Chung

Huy Chung

Director of Research, Writing Project, UC Irvine

Janet Mercado

Janet Mercado

Project Manager, UCI

Elizabeth Mendoza

Elizabeth Mendoza

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ha Nguyen

Ha Nguyen

Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Instructional Technology, Utah State University

Juan Gaytan

Juan Gaytan

Education Career Specialist, CSUSM

Jiwon Lee

Jiwon Lee

Senior UX Researcher, Boomi

Jacob Steiss

Jacob Steiss

Jonathan Montoya

Jonathan Montoya

Visiting Scholars

Rae Young Kim

Rae Young Kim

2017 Visiting Scholar Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Kathrin Krammer

Kathrin Krammer

2015 Visiting Scholar University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland

Adriana Zaragoza

Adriana Zaragoza

2020 Visiting Scholar Technical University of Munich, Germany

Sigal Rotem

Sigal Rotem

2021 Visiting Scholar University of Haifa, Department of Mathematics Education

Silvia Micheletta

Silvia Micheletta

2014 Visiting ScholarUniversity of Florence, Italy

Decheng Zhao

Decheng Zhao

2019 Visiting ScholarBeijing Normal University, China

Felicitas Thiel

Felicitas Thiel

2020 Visiting Scholar Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Dr. Eun Hye Ham

Dr. Eun Hye Ham

2023 Visiting Scholar Kongju National University, South Korea

Frédéric Saussez

Frédéric Saussez

2014 Visiting Associate ResearcherAssociate Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada

Andrea Ciani

Andrea Ciani

2019-20 Visiting Scholar University of Bologna, Italy

Chiara Varlaro

Chiara Varlaro

2022 Visiting Scholar, University of Bologna, Italy

Benjamin James

Benjamin James

Doctoral Student, UCSC